transcription, транскрипция: [ bɔ:l ]
( bawls, bawling, bawled)
1.
If you bawl , you shout in a very loud voice, for example because you are angry or you want people to hear you.
When I came back to the hotel Laura and Peter were shouting and bawling at each other...
Then a voice bawled: ‘Lay off! I’ll kill you, you little rascal!’...
He tried to direct the video like a fashion show, bawling instructions to the girls.
= yell
VERB : V at n , V with quote , V n
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Bawl out means the same as bawl .
Someone in the audience bawled out ‘Not him again!’
PHRASAL VERB : V P with quote , also V P n (not pron) , V n P , V P to n
2.
If you say that a child is bawling , you are annoyed because it is crying loudly.
One of the toddlers was bawling, and the other had a runny nose.
...a bawling baby.
VERB : V , V-ing , also V with quote